Small businesses and self-employment

This book focuses on strategies for developing consumer markets in Africa using concepts and techniques from marketing, entrepreneurship, and project management.

This book focuses on strategies for developing consumer markets in Africa using concepts and techniques from marketing, entrepreneurship, and project management.

In the aftermath of the global recession, job creation is a policy priority.

In the aftermath of the global recession, job creation is a policy priority.

This edited book addresses two critical issues in international management: building trust and managing boundary spanning activities between international business partners.

This edited book addresses two critical issues in international management: building trust and managing boundary spanning activities between international business partners.

Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career.

Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career.

This book challenges the practice or organizational change programmes.

This book challenges the practice or organizational change programmes.

This book is a look into the world of the small business owner through their eyes - how the five different "e;tribes"e; of business perceive the world around them, how they run their businesses, their motivations and goals.

This book is a look into the world of the small business owner through their eyes - how the five different "e;tribes"e; of business perceive the world around them, how they run their businesses, their motivations and goals.

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based.

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based.

This title was first published in 2001: Governments world-wide have developed policies to encourage innovation, entrepreneurship, and small firm growth, and to increase access to small firm finance.

This title was first published in 2001: Governments world-wide have developed policies to encourage innovation, entrepreneurship, and small firm growth, and to increase access to small firm finance.

Trust in Generative Artificial Intelligence: Human Robot Interaction and Ethical Considerations is a comprehensive exploration of the critical role of trust in the rapidly evolving world of AI.

This title was first published in 2002.

This title was first published in 2002.

Identities can potentially serve as powerful elements that both drive, and are shaped by, entrepreneurial actions.

Identities can potentially serve as powerful elements that both drive, and are shaped by, entrepreneurial actions.

This title was first published in 2003.

This innovative book is the first to explore social entrepreneurship in the field of hospitality, introducing students to the principles of social entrepreneurship motivation, finance, sustainability, issues and challenges, and how these can be successfully implemented in a range of hospitality settings.

This innovative book is the first to explore social entrepreneurship in the field of hospitality, introducing students to the principles of social entrepreneurship motivation, finance, sustainability, issues and challenges, and how these can be successfully implemented in a range of hospitality settings.

This book focuses on the business story of Walt Disney and the company he built.

This title was first published in 2002.

This title was first published in 2002.

What goes on in a small firm that lives or dies by its capacity to innovate?

What goes on in a small firm that lives or dies by its capacity to innovate?

The international fragmentation of economic activities - from research and design to production and marketing - described through the lens of the global value chain (GVC) approach impacts the structure and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) agglomerated in economic clusters.

The international fragmentation of economic activities - from research and design to production and marketing - described through the lens of the global value chain (GVC) approach impacts the structure and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) agglomerated in economic clusters.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series.

There are many misconceptions and concerns regarding Islamic societies and how Muslim countries have failed to come up with their own localised solutions to socio-economic problems in dealing with poverty alleviation and societal development.

There are many misconceptions and concerns regarding Islamic societies and how Muslim countries have failed to come up with their own localised solutions to socio-economic problems in dealing with poverty alleviation and societal development.

Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world.

Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world.

Young people are a vulnerable category of workers, finding themselves in a delicate phase of their working life: their first entry into the labour market.

Young people are a vulnerable category of workers, finding themselves in a delicate phase of their working life: their first entry into the labour market.

The theme of this book is simple.

The theme of this book is simple.

A leader's ability to discover and implement innovations is crucial to adapting to changing technologies and customer preferences, enhancing employee creativity, developing new products, supporting market competitiveness, and sustaining economic growth.

A leader's ability to discover and implement innovations is crucial to adapting to changing technologies and customer preferences, enhancing employee creativity, developing new products, supporting market competitiveness, and sustaining economic growth.

In this fascinating study, Neri Karra examines entrepreneurial family businesses in emerging markets by integrating three schools of thought: agency theory, an institutional framework, and the altruism perspective.

In this fascinating study, Neri Karra examines entrepreneurial family businesses in emerging markets by integrating three schools of thought: agency theory, an institutional framework, and the altruism perspective.

Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship brings together a group of eminent and up-and-coming young scholars who apply an intersectional perspective to the study of ethnic entrepreneurship.

Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship brings together a group of eminent and up-and-coming young scholars who apply an intersectional perspective to the study of ethnic entrepreneurship.

Many business-to-business (B2B) managers think that customers act rationally and base decisions mostly on price, customer loyalty isn't considered.

Many business-to-business (B2B) managers think that customers act rationally and base decisions mostly on price, customer loyalty isn't considered.

Political and financial upheaval is not a new phenomenon - from the tulip bulb bubble in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century to Black Monday in 1987, businesses throughout history have worked to adapt and cope.